I’m after strategies or recommendations for encouraging my 6 year old daughter.
Our gorgeous girl is the sweetest thing, she has always has struggled to regulate her emotions, but we have noticed it’s not improving, in fact we feel it’s getting worse
She is developing fears of lots of things, she gives up easily on things that might be a little bit hard, she is a perfectionist and cannot get anything wrong or be corrected on anything.
It breaks our hearts that is gets so anxious, but what we are going is totally not working so any advice would be totally appreciated.
Thank you
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Read up on girls with autism and if you see similarities, go to GP, get referral to a pediatrician or developmental pediatrician even better. They may refer you to a child psychologist and/or occupational therapist
The sooner you get professional help the better. Anxiety, perfectionism, sensitivity can all be improved with understanding and awareness
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Our kids go to martial arts, at the end of every session they do a mat chat on a topic a month.
It is an open discussion with the kids they all share experiences.
They can see all the kids are having similar issues.
It has been great, they have strategies on how to deal with the situation, or how to improve on what what happened.
I have seen both the kids use strategies and see them come out with confidence.
Sounds quite like our daughter. She can’t cope with things emotionally and has melt downs regularly. Also does not deal well with getting things wrong. We have been to a child psychologist a couple of times but she didn’t think it was too bad, suggested ‘love bombing’ her, I.e giving lots of hugs ect with melt downs. Now travelling and nothing has changed.